Intelligent micro-module design for the next generation data center trend

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News: Recently, Aliyun Hong Kong Data Center officially put into use, become Ali cloud Computing in Hangzhou, Qingdao, Beijing, the world's fourth deployment of data center area, Aliyun will be able to provide Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and even the global users of cloud computing services.

News Two: Hainan Province government and wave sign cloud computing Strategic agreement, by wave to build cloud computing center and responsible for Yun-Wei, for Hainan province government agencies to provide cloud computing services, the government from the construction of data center to buy cloud computing services, Hainan and wave of cooperation took a substantial step.

Although this is two different enterprises, but can be seen in the cloud computing, data center construction, has been deeply valued by the government and enterprises. In the face of changing demand for user applications, the current data center has met the challenges of energy consumption, heat dissipation, noise and many other aspects, as the future of the construction of data center demand for the vigorous, more flexible, more energy-efficient, more efficient deployment of design and solutions.

In the IT industry, the pivotal market is fast into the cloud computing era, on the one hand, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises from the small data center to the mature cloud computing service providers to buy cloud services, on the other hand, the government also began to try to work with professional IT vendors to establish a municipal and provincial cloud computing To provide cloud services for level two units, cloud computing has evolved from the conceptual hype of previous years to today's practical stage in the enterprise market. Data Center as the base unit supporting cloud computing service, with the rapid development of cloud computing, it is bound to present the trend of centralization, large scale and specialization, which is a new type of data center deployment form in this background.

Micro-module design replaces predecessors as new darling of data center

One of the important features of cloud computing is elastic expansion, and the flexible deployment of data center is one of the most important key. The new technology of IT industry is often the first from more innovative Internet enterprises, in the exploration of the construction of flexible data center, because of the demand for data center, scale more concentrated, and more value the cost, domestic and foreign large-scale internet enterprises once again walked in the forefront of the industry. Take Google's Belgian data center, for example, distribution and refrigeration are located on both sides of the computer room, using a similar container modular unit, the room also uses a cold, hot channel isolated micro-module unit, the realization of a real modular data center. But foreign successful experience does not necessarily apply to domestic, in the land resources especially in China, the volume rate of ultra-low single-storey factory-type data center is luxury, so more suitable for multi-layer data center of the interior micro-module slowly become a domestic elastic data center exploration of the main direction.

Google Belgium Data Center

At present, the domestic internet three giants have been in the new data center to try the form of micro-module deployment, Tencent has hundreds of micro-module practice, according to Tencent, micro-module deployment compared to traditional data center can save TCO (full life cycle costs) as high as 17%.

Tencent Micro Module Data Center

The micro-modular data center has been favored by large internet companies because it coincides with a fast, flexible, and efficient internet spirit. In physics, the micro-module data center will power distribution, refrigeration, cabinet, cold/hot channel, bridge and other equipment integrated together, abandoning the overhead floor, air-conditioning room, etc. in the traditional room seems essential to rely on conditions, to achieve with the computer room environment decoupling, become a relatively independent deployment unit, combined with micro-module overall program and components of the standardized design, Can achieve rapid deployment of data center, flexible expansion.

More importantly, on the basis of infrastructure integration, IT equipment within the micro-module has its own power distribution and refrigeration unit, which can realize the intelligent collaboration between the two. For example, air-conditioning can be based on IT equipment load, temperature and other parameters to develop a more refined control strategy, not only to avoid local hot spots, but also to enable valve opening and fan speed is always running in a more energy-saving, efficient state, the future can even discard it equipment inside the fan, Only use the fan to drive the entire micro-module of airflow organization, further reduce energy consumption. Physical integration is only to optimize the layout of each device, only through the centralized intelligent management platform will be the micro-module of it, distribution, refrigeration, monitoring and other equipment organically integrated, so that its intelligent work together, to play the micro-modular deployment of the real value of this form.

Leading the micro-module data center

In the domestic manufacturers, the tide relies on the server market accumulation more than 20 years, make it in the infrastructure construction, has the strong superiority, this also urges the tidal wave to become the next generation data center leader successfully. As far as I know, most of the current manufacturers are designed to support the cabinet cold channel components, and the tide is based on its excellent performance of covering more than 50% in the whole cabinet market, its micro-module design combines the rich experience of the wave in the server market, has the unique design: compatible with the machine cabinet server, that is, supporting the cabinet to push into, A separate support frame is used to support the channel assembly or the overhead air conditioner, supplemented by a variety of cabinet components to integrate the cabinet and the support frame together. Looking from the future development potential, the whole machine cabinet server and the Micro module work together seems to be realized earlier.

It is understood that the domestic first with independent intellectual property rights of the wave micro-module data Center--smart Cloud MDC successfully settled in 2013 in Hangzhou Telecom, the official operation and focus on the service NetEase company. 14 also won the bid of a domestic internet giant micro-module project, the design of the micro-module using the top air-conditioning, compatible with the entire cabinet server, Busbar, HVDC, lithium iron phosphate batteries, such as the current data center industry cutting-edge technology.

Deployed in Hangzhou Telecom to provide services to NetEase company Wave micro-module Data center

The tidal wave is a container data center deployed in Tianjin new eco-City

Micro-modules have been deployed in China, large Internet companies are also beginning to explore the design of intelligent micro-modules, at the same time, at the industry level, the Ministry of Telecommunications Research Institute is organizing micro-modular industry standards, micro-module is a wave of innovation across the industry, perhaps in the near future, The results of the data center delivery will become a pool of resources that includes infrastructure, servers, storage, and networks.